All pain stems from disconnection.

Connection is from within.

We can be alone and yet connected. We can be alone and disconnected (equal to feeling lonely).
We can be with others and be connected, and we can be with others and yet be disconnected.

The difference is.. where is our awareness? Are we knowingly connected inwardly with the sense and presence of our loving self? Are we in with the moment unfolding? Or are we in our head, our thoughts, our judgements, our beliefs, and bringing things from the past or anticipating the future?

Are we alive to the people we are with? Can we sense their being? Are we attuned to what is harmonious and graceful? Or do we relate through our thinking and impose things onto the moment, through an unconscious agenda?

Where is our consciousness? What is our conscious intention in any given moment? Let’s be deeply self honest.

Looking honestly into these questions inside our own experience are good contemplations to practice and live by.